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LoLP Episode 64: Jay Beeber - How To Fight Local Tyranny

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Education, Business, Comedy, Self-improvement, News, Politics

4.6672 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2014

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Lions of Liberty Podcast, host Marc Clair is joined by Jay Beeber, a libertarian activist in Marc’s home city of Los Angeles, who is best known for getting the red light camera program shut down in the city. Jay describes how he became involved in the red light camera issue and helped to expose the program as a scam benefiting crony corporations, leading to him becoming a local folk hero of sorts in LA. Jay explains how why he is now running for LA City Council, and how he plans to take on the local establishment and continue to call for a government accountable to its citizens, not corporatist interests.  Be sure to stick around for Marc’s f [...] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:28.4

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0:30.6

The only team I'm interested in playing on is the people's team.

0:33.9

That's who I care about.

0:46.0

Thank you. that's who I care about. Welcome to the Lions of Liberty podcast.

0:49.2

Here's your host, your guide, your shining beacon of liberty,

0:53.0

Mark Clare.

0:56.5

Howdy folks and welcome once again to another episode of the Lions of Liberty podcast, episode 64.

1:05.2

My guest today is a local liberty activist here in my home city of Los Angeles, California.

1:12.8

He is the executive director of Safer Streets, L.A., an organization best known for its victory in the fight against red light

1:17.9

cameras here in Los Angeles. His writing has appeared at Reason.com. He has also taken up the fight

1:23.3

against the outrageous parking system run by the city of Los Angeles as the co-founder of the

1:28.0

Los Angeles Parking Freedom Initiative. And if all that wasn't enough, he's currently a candidate

1:32.9

for Los Angeles City Council. Jay Bieber, welcome to the Lions of Liberty Podcast.

1:38.0

Oh, thanks so much for having me on, Mark.

1:40.3

Oh, Jay, welcome to the show. I'm definitely glad to have you on. I've heard your name so many

1:43.9

times over the last few years, obviously living out here in L.A. and being kind of in tune with these issues, so to speak. But before we get into that stuff, why don't you start off by just telling us a little bit of how you got started down this path of activism towards sort of fighting against what I like to call sort of local tyranny here in Los Angeles.

2:00.7

Well, you know, in terms of my background, I sort of became a libertarian-ish person by kind of

2:08.1

starting out as a liberal or a liberal thinking person. And then I ran a business for eight years.

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